Haal-e-dil Movie Reviews

Where logic ends, magic begins — is what the hero Shekhar (Nakuul Mehta) believes. But director Anil Devgan has done away with any kind of logic in the film and as for magic it never really happens.

This common question is addressed to the producer [Kumar Mangat], director [Anil Devgan] and lead actors [Amita Pathak, Nakuul Mehta, Adhyayan Suman] of HAAL-E-DIL: What actually did you see in the script of this film? And the next question is for the writer [Dhiraj Ratan]: How could you pen this apology of a script? Sorry, let me alter the question: Do you know the basics of screenplay writing?

ANYONE for Jab We Met minus its zing? Anyone for a long train journey from Mumbai to Kalka, which is supposed to be romantic but ends up as tedious and almost derailed? There's a serious-looking girl in specs who's on a train to Simla. She meets a funny looking boy who is determined to make a pest of himself with his magic shows that include stealing some radish and carrots from the fields en-route.

Whoever said Haal-E-Dil is a copy of Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge is wrong. They have to be, because how can anyone make such a terrible copy? Haal-E-Dil is a story of Sanjana [Images] Sharma (Amita Pathak), Rohit (Adhyayan Suman) and Shekar (Nakuul Mehta).

Here’s some more cloud-walkin’ and jab-we-meetin’. It’s a plot that’ll be redone as a Kloud bhi Kabhi Sarson Thi soap serial any day now. Till that scary day, get more scared by yet one more spin-oof-oof-ooof. Train means pain. In a gender reversal, Girl (Amita Pathak) is a bit mentally troubled on a slow chhook chhook gaadi.

Here is another hackneyed storyline injected with uninspired direction for the sake of introducing new, well-connected — but not necessarily proficient — talent. A trio of awkward newcomers is conducted by old fashioned direction in a story driven by characters